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Photo ID: 946923
Title:

Dioniza’s First Holy Communion

Description:

Dioniza’s First Holy Communion

Source:

Dioniza Choros

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Szczurzyn, Wołynskie, Luck

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Photo ID: 946954
Title:

Gradzik family, 1929

Description:

Adults: Sisters Waleria and Janina. Janina's daughters: Bronisława, Dioniza (standing) and Halina. Photo taken in 1929.

Source:

Dioniza Choros

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 947118
Title:

Reverse of photo: Jozef Hammer in 1919

Description:

If you can read this writing, please use the COMMENT feature below to provide a translation, or email Lisa Frizzle (lafrizzle at gmail dot com)

Source:

Lisa Frizzle

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Bobrka, Lwow

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Photo ID: 947657
Title:

Halina’s home in Wilno

Description:

Pre-WWII family home (view from the back)

Source:

Halina Kozlowska

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Wilno

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Photo ID: 948826
Title:

Jozef Wojtkowiak Cowes, 1937

Description:

Jozef Wojtkowiak, Polish Navy at The Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes. Jozef was in Cowes in 1937 as a commissioner of the building of ORP Blyskawica. ORP Błyskawica, the second of two Grom-class destroyers, was built for the Polish Navy by J. Samuel White, Cowes in 1935–37. The name means Lightning. The two Groms were some of the most heavily armed and fastest destroyers on the seas before World War II.

Source:

Wanda Troman

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

United Kingdom

City/Town/Village:

Cowes, Isle of White

Related Military Service:

Polish navy

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Photo ID: 948873
Title:

Wiesław, standing at rear, 3rd from right

Description:

Leszek Szozda, his cousin, standing immediately left of Wiesław; Krystyna Szozda, Wiesław’s cousin sitting on the lap of Krystyna, Wanda’s mother; Poland circa 1933

Source:

Wanda Gillon

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Skalat

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Photo ID: 949143
Title:

Franciszek Turkiewicz in Police Uniform

Description:

Franciszek Turkiewicz in Police Uniform

Source:

Mark Turkiewicz

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 950440
Title:

ID of ranciszek Prusinski

Description:

Franciszek Prusinski - These ID papers " Dowd Osobisty" belonged to my Great Grandfather on my Mother's side of the family. My Mothers Father brought these papers to New Zealand with him. They were issued in Poland in 1936

Source:

Stan Gazdowicz

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 950674
Title:

Borysław region (view 3 of 4)

Description:

Borysław region (view 3 of 4)

Source:

Henry Sokolowski

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Boryslaw, Stanisławowskie

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Photo ID: 951771
Title:

NOWOSADY_FORREST

Description:

NOWOSADY_FORREST

Source:

Helen Bitner

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 951797
Title:

Young_Marynia

Description:

Young_Marynia

Source:

Helen Bitner

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 955121
Title:

Log booms and loggers in the Czarnohora mountains

Description:

Log booms and loggers in the Czarnohora mountains

Source:

Henry Sokolowski

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Kosów, Stanislawow

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Photo ID: 947083
Title:

Leopold before Siberia

Description:

Leopold, brother to Halina Miros, before deportation to Siberia.

Source:

Halina Miros

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 947364
Title:

Irena – during her early career in Lwow

Description:

Irena – during her early career in Lwow

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Lwow

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Photo ID: 947584
Title:

Jan Gadomski

Description:

Father of Irena Jankowska - member of the Polish Border Guard - date unknown

Source:

Irena Jankowska

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 947790
Title:

Church where Jan was christened

Description:

built in 1594 - still standing and in use today

Source:

Jan Kołodziński

Time Period:

After WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 950005
Title:

Nowa-Wilejka 1938

Description:

Military service in Nowa-Wilejka 1938. 13th "Tartar" Wilno Cavalry Regiment. Stefan Mustafa Abramowicz collection. Copyright by Xenia Jacoby, Martin Jones & Zofia Wierzbicka

Source:

Xenia Jacoby

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Wilno

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Photo ID: 958569
Title:

Mucha Album Pg 1 Photo 6

Description:

Mucha Album Pg 1 Photo 6

Source:

Krystyna Mucha

Time Period:

Before WWII

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Photo ID: 959469
Title:

Karol Jastrzebski

Description:

Karol Jastrzebski

Source:

Izabela Spero

Time Period:

During WWII

Country:

Poland

Related Military Service:

September 1939 Campaign

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Photo ID: 946925
Title:

Dioniza’s First Holy Communion Group

Description:

First Communion: Edek Werakse, Dysia Gradzik, Gienia Michalek, Zosia Uzban, teacher Helene Serdowicz , Ukrainian who taught Catholic religion. May 1936.

Source:

Dioniza Choros

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Szczurzyn, Wołynskie, Luck

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Photo ID: 946984
Title:

Genia in 1938

Description:

Genia in 1938

Source:

Eugenia Gruszewska

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Stolpce, Nowogródzkie

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Photo ID: 947031
Title:

Weronika and her sister-in-law

Description:

Weronika and her sister-in-law

Source:

Halina Babinska

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 947120
Title:

Reverse of the Jozef Hammer 1923 photo

Description:

If you can read this writing, please use the COMMENT feature below to provide a translation, or email Lisa Frizzle (lafrizzle at gmail dot com)

Source:

Lisa Frizzle

Time Period:

Before WWII

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Photo ID: 948386
Title:

Marriage of Jan Wójcik to Józefa Gajewska

Description:

Marriage of Jan Wójcik to Józefa Gajewska

Source:

Stanisława Wherrett

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 948728
Title:

Jozefa and Stanislaw Milaszewicz, with Jozef

Description:

Jozefa and Stanislaw Milaszewicz, with Jozef

Source:

Regina Miłaszewicz

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 948829
Title:

Admiral Czernicki 1929

Description:

Rear Admiral Xawery Czernicki of the Polish Navy (16 Oct 1882 – May 1940 in Katyn). He was born in Giedejki, the district of Oszmian, the son of Edward and Teresa Bohuszewicz. Wanda's father Jozef Wojtkowiak worked with him (in photo), under his command, in France, during the construction of the first Polish destroyers and submarines in France. There is book in Polish entitled “Kontradmiral Xawery Czernicki”, published in Gdynia in 2001.

Source:

Wanda Troman

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

France

Related Military Service:

Polish navy

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Photo ID: 948875
Title:

Wanda’s maternal grandparents

Description:

Tomasz Szozda and Józefa (nėe Turańska), centre of three women; Skałat, Poland, 1937; other 2 women are unknown.

Source:

Wanda Gillon

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Skalat

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Photo ID: 949059
Title:

Unknown Person 3 – 27 May 1936

Description:

Identity unknown. Can anyone identify him, or make out the embossed writing on the bottom right hand side? I think it says "VENVS" "LWOW" and "AKADEMICKA". Dated in Lodz, Poland, 27 V 1936

Source:

Vanessa Tomecki

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

City/Town/Village:

Lodz

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Photo ID: 949145
Title:

Franciszek Turkiewicz Family

Description:

Franciszek, Bronislawa, Ryszard & Marta

Source:

Mark Turkiewicz

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

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Photo ID: 950442
Title:

Photo of Franciszek Prusinski

Description:

My Great Grandfather - This is a photo of my Great Grandfather Franciszek Prusinski, taken in 1936. He was born in 1878 and died in Siberia some time between 1940-1942 (my mother was to young to remember the exact date).

Source:

Stan Gazdowicz

Time Period:

Before WWII

Country:

Poland

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